Surfer (and theoretical physicist) Garrett Lisi has used the mathematics of the E8 Lie Group, a 248-dimensional puzzle that was solved in March this year, to develop a new Theory of Everything that unites gravity and quantum mechanics.

The abstract of Lisi's paper says:

"All fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an E8 principal bundle connection. A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. The interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold."